Overcoming Barriers by Crossing Borders: A Partnership with Kamuzu College of Nursing (2021-2025)

The Vanier College Malawi Nursing Exchange offers graduating students a credited seven-week internship to Malawi, Africa to apply their knowledge and skills in a different context. Students learn how limited resources and cultural beliefs and values impact health outcomes. Scarce resources, both human and material, force the students to rely on assessment skills instead of diagnostic tests that are so readily available at home. They also become resourceful, culturally competent and understanding of different health systems. Third-year Nursing students from Malawi attend Vanier College in partnership with Kamuzu College of Nursing. This project contains both virtual and physical mobility components.

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Strengthening Canada’s Global Skills: Our submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Pre-budget Consultations in Advance of Budget 2024

The program has equipped a new generation of students, from all backgrounds, with global skills necessary to meet Canada’s ever evolving labour market needs. It is now time to make the program a permanent part of Canada’s skills strategy and approach to international education.
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Louisane LeBlanc: If the Global Skills Opportunity pilot ends, Canadians with disabilities will miss out

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Seventy new GSO projects to support hundreds of students’ global work and study experiences

With funding from Economic and Social Development Canada, the new GSO projects will allow hundreds more Canadian students to gain invaluable global skills through international work and study experiences in countries around the world.